Smith letter: Terrorists
What motivates a terrorist to be a terrorist? Oddly we don’t seem to be asking this question. Do we really buy in to the simplistic notion that terrorists are evil, America is a sovereign nation, and because we just happen to have the military might it is our job to rid the world of this evil? This sounds a lot like the Chuck Norris movies I grew up with as a kid.
And has the war on terror worked? I honestly do not know. It’s tough to tell judging by what I see on the evening news and read in the newspaper.
What I do know is that the Military Industrial Complex reaps massive profits from war. This makes me wonder: Is peace really part of the end game or are we going to be fighting forever in what Zhiwa Woodbury’s Guest Opinion piece recently coined a “cycle of trauma?”
Can we really afford, monetarily and in terms of human capital, to fight forever?
Jason Smith, Boise
This story was originally published January 31, 2016 at 5:52 PM with the headline "Smith letter: Terrorists."